Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Joseph Lewis has deployed his cast efficiently in documenting the progress of a battalion from training at Camp Pendleton to the Inchon landing, the recapture of Seoul and the 1950 drive into North Korea when the marines, battling frostbite and the enemy, had to fall back to Hungnam harbor. But Director Lewis' leathernecks, marching from the halls of Hollywood to the shores of sentiment, are screen stencils rather than flesh & blood marines, and the result is formula heroics...
...what has happened to the famed nth Marine Artillery Regiment? We have four of the shootingest artillery battalions in Korea. Not only can we shoot, but we can hit what we see. The 3rd Battalion has expended over 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammo since [it] landed at Inchon on the 23rd of September...
...fourth went to 1st Lieut. Henry Alfred Commuiskey of Hattiesburg, Miss. In the White House rose garden one sunshiny day last week, 24-year-old Lieut. Commiskey, greying veteran of more than seven years in the corps, stood at attention while the President read the citation: After the Inchon landing, armed only with a .45-cal. pistol, Marine Commiskey charged two enemy machine-gun emplacements near Seoul and killed seven North Koreans in hand-to-hand fighting. Unscathed then, he was hit a week later by shell fragments in the Seoul railway station, went back into battle after that...
...steel mill at Inchon and the spinning works at Yongdungpo are heaps of blasted machinery. In Pusan, Korea's largest spinning mill is starved of electric power. The once-flourishing coal mines at Yongwol are silent relics. In North Korea, U.S. bombers have smashed a nitrogen plant at Hungnam, the oil refinery at Wonsan, marshaling yards at Sinuiju...
...materiel and men into Pusan's choking port. When the allied forces were finally ready for the big breakout, some U.N. forces stabbed westward to Kunsan, but the main body drove north toward Seoul. Then MacArthur dealt one of the master strokes of the war: the landing at Inchon (Seoul's port). The routed North Koreans reeled back toward the Manchurian border. MacArthur sent his forces after them in hot pursuit up to the Yalu...